Alex Pheby

Prize — Galley Beggar Press

Our short story prize is open for submissions again! Please share this widely - and please send us your stories:

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Closing date 8 November!

Alert! Alert! We're having a 35% backlist title sale.

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SEPT 18 - Book Launch: WRITING THE MAGIC Date: 18 SeptemberTime: 6 PM - 8 PMDead Ink Books, 375 Smithdown Road, L15 3JJTickets from £5 WRITING THE MAGIC is the fourth in Dead Ink's award winning series of genre writing guides. Following on f...

We're bringing a little magic to #Liverpool this September! WRITING THE MAGIC will launch on Thurs 18 Sept at Dead Ink Books, Liverpool, at 6pm. Discussing it with me will be archmages of the written word Alex Pheby & RJ Barker. More info and tickets below.

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Reading “Waterblack” by @alexpheby.bsky.social and a dreadful thing is occurring — this novel (and the series it concludes, “Cities of the Weft”) is SO bloody good that it’s spoiling me rotten. I’m not being hyperbolic when I say that this is as good as Mervyn Peake.

Do yourself a favor and read the cities of the West trilogy from @alexpheby.bsky.social. Waterblack, the last installment, is a mind blowing conclusion?? that I am in total awe of.
Rating: 5/5⭐
Final Recommendation: BUY ALL OF THEM IMMEDIATELY
#booksky 💙📚💫🖋️

SamJordison on Substack An old idea in a new form. A column I used to run in The Guardian is back, with some new twists. Let’s see if it also works on Substack. (Features Lawrence Sterne, Graham Swift, Lorde, bookworms, Don ...

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Landmark literature It feels like quite a while since we last sent a newsletter… And that’s because it is.

Our latest newsletter is live: shorturl.at/0KVXi Contains: news. News about Waterblack, upcoming books, upcoming short story prize and more.

I wrote some of this! Excited to be able to say so at last (NDA).

I wrote some of this.

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Waterblack by Alex Pheby “How is a person changed by power?”

Epic review of Waterblack in @strangehorizons.bsky.social by Matthew Eatough: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

"Waterblack will be greeted as a fitting conclusion to one of the landmark works of experimental fantasy of the twenty-first century...

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Amid the excitement of the @strangehorizons.bsky.social fund drive, we also have a standard issue this week (we are rockstars).

In Reviews so far: Eatough on Waterblack and Pheby’s Cities of the Weft (@galleybeggars.bsky.social); @marinaberlin.bsky.social on Wheel of Time’s third and final season.

Already pre-ordered!!!

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THE COUNTDOWN APPROACHES!
We have 4 days to reach our fundraising goal & we have a LONG way to go!!

Be the reason that the Locus lights stay on! Help us out at igg.me/at/locusmag2025. We are so grateful for your support!

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Interrogating Power and Narrative in the Cities of the Weft Trilogy - Typebar Magazine An admonishment to read closely and not to fix upon plot becomes an encouragement to read as you will.

"If, in Peake, I saw the possibility of a fundamentally different sort of fantasy story from those of Tolkien and his many imitators then in Pheby we can see the perfection of that method" Sounds right! www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/02/23/i...

The Fiction shortlist:
Mark Bowles, All My Precious Madness @galleybeggars.bsky.social
Lucas Rijneveld, My Heavenly Favourite, translated by Michele Hutchison @faberbooks.bsky.social
Phillip B. Williams, Ours @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social
Yasmin Zaher, The Coin @wearefootnote.bsky.social

We just finished recording a bonus episode with @alexpheby.bsky.social about his work, the undeserved disrespect heaped on Sci-Fi/Fantasy, and Final Fantasy games. We all had a great time chatting with him and can't wait to get the episode out to you!

We'll be back to Against the Day in two weeks!

A stack of books showing the so far complete Cities of the Weft series by Alex Pheby: Mordew, Malarkoi, and Waterblack

The third has finally come to join the others. I can’t wait to see how the Weft expands in Waterblack @galleybeggars.bsky.social @alexpheby.bsky.social

My God. Mark Bowles, All My Precious Madness. Do read it, please.

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I'm listening to Waterblack by Alex Pheby and it's fantastic. Been looking forward to it so much.

Waterblack by Alex Pheby: Review by Ian Mond Waterblack, Alex Pheby (Tor 978-1-250-81729-7, $32.00, 640pp, hc) January 2025. Toward the end of Waterblack, in the middle of one of several appendices, the omniscient narrator, who has held our h…

Explore @Mondyboy’s review of WATERBLACK by @alexpheby (@alexpheby.bsky.social): “In a series that’s all about power, Pheby reminds us that he’s the one in control; he chooses which narrative lever to pull.” locusmag.com/2025/03...

“Endlessly rewarding” – Waterblack by Alex Pheby “Waterblack is the third book in the author’s Cities of the Weft fantasy trilogy that started with Mordew and then Malarchoi. It consolidates the world building of the previous two books, exp…

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Bringing a book into the world Some notes on the publication of Waterblack, a fantasy masterpiece - and a very heavy book.

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A few words about the publication of Waterblack.

Waterblack by Alex Pheby — Book of the Month Review With the release of Waterblack, Alex Pheby completes The Cities of The Weft trilogy with the grit and style to which his readers have become accustomed. As with its predecessors — Mordew and Malark…

Lovely review of Waterblack on the @turnarounduk.bsky.social blog: theturnaroundblog.com/2025/02/28/w...

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Mordew's Alex Pheby for Waterblack at Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh

Hello Scotland! This is happening in Edinburgh next week. Tickets still available - will be an excellent event. (Please RT so people get to hear about it...)

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My latest article in Typebar Magazine is a close reading of the Cities of the Weft trilogy by the inestimable @alexpheby.bsky.social

Waterblack by Alex Pheby

And that’s a wrap 🥲 Thank you @alexpheby.bsky.social for one of the most imaginative and wonderful trilogies I’ve ever experienced. I loved these characters so much. What a conclusion.

Malarkoi by Alex Pheby Nathan Treeves is dead, murdered by the Master of Mordew, his remains used to create the powerful...

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Finished Malarkoi. I think I loved it even more than Mordew. It makes me want to read anything and everything by Alex Pheby. What a writer!!! #BookSky💙📚